Interesting facts about Canada's PMs

Right to strike enshrined for public service

1965 — Lester Pearson has agreed that collective bargaining will be permitted by the Canadian public service in the future. His government’s announcement last month that their right to strike would be removed by legislation sparked a nation-wide illegal strike by nearly 20,000 postal workers that lasted about two weeks.

It is one of Canada’s largest wildcat strikes and catches Pearson off-guard. Strikers have agreed to return to work now that Pearson has made it clear that legislation will extend both the right to strike and the right to collective bargaining to the public service.